Intense debates in Tehran gave way to IRGC and military leaders winning their argument that Iran had no choice but to respond to repeated Israeli attacks against Iran.
Iranian forces fired a lightweight attack with a little less than 200 projectiles, some being rockets and a few being missiles.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, the Iranian president Photo credit: Mehr News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Iran’s president, Massoud Pezeshkian, said the missile strike was an appropriate act of self-defence. He warned Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu that “Iran is not seeking war, but it will stand firmly against any threats.”
The IRGC has issued a statement to say, “In response to the Israeli killings of Ismail Haniyeh, Seyyed Hassan and Abbas Nilforoshan, we targeted the heart of Israel. If the Zionist regime responds to our attack, our next attacks will be more devastating.”
Meanwhile Netanyahu has made a statement saying Israel will attack Iran within hours and U.S. President Biden says he has ordered DoD to back Israel inasmuch as it requires.
Security analyst Simon Baldock from Tel Aviv reported that his contacts are saying that Netanyahu wants to draw the USA into a major war with Iran and is planning a massive attack against Iranian civilians in Tehran, which is one of the options under consideration as the Israeli security council meets within an hour or two. Netanyahu has been attacking civilians in Lebanon, and Palestine killing some 1,000 in Lebanon, 42,000 in Gaza and over 700 in the West Bank.
Israel has been conducting attacks against Iran and assassinations in Tehran.
Israel has attacked and killed some 42,000 Gazans, mostly women and children who arrived at faltering hospitals. Many thousands are dead under rubble. In doing so it has dragged the incompetent USA President and its administration into a genocide and these men are facing allegations of genocide complicity.
These are the Defendants: American private citizens Michael Richard Pence, Sean Patrick Hannity, and Michael Pompeo, Austria Chancellor Karl Nehammer, Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, Britain's former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Bulgaria Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, Czech Republic Prime Minister Petr Fiala, de facto Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald J. Trump,
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, France President Emmanuel Macron, France's President Emmanuel Macron, General CQ Brown Jr., Germany President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (posthumous), Hamas senior planner Yahya Sinwar, Hungary President Katalin Novak, Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Joseph Biden, Kamala Harris, Latvia President Edgars Rinkevics, Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, President of the European Council Charles Michel, Romania Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd J. Austin, U.S. Political Advisor Jake Sullivan, USA Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the following USA Senators, Bill Hagerty, Katie Boyd Britt, Kevin Cramer, Marco Rubio, Marsha Blackburn, Mitch McConnell, Pete Ricketts, Rick Scott, Ted Budd, Ted Cruz , Tim Scott, Tom Cotton plus USA political actors like Adm. (retired) John Kirby and Nikki Haley.
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Statement of Particulars, Genocide in Gaza filed with the ICC by the women of The RINJ Foundation as a non-state complainant on behalf of the women of Gaza.
Israel has imperiled the USA with a growing threat of WWIII
“Israel has infuriated much of the world but since Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen and all of Palestine are united in heart and soul, Netanyahu has managed to earn the wrath of much of the Middle East. Add to that the BRICS alliance and the special relationship between Russia, China and Iran, add the DPRK, and America can expect some homeland devastation under the leadership of a mentally barren Joe Biden,” said Dale Carter, RINJ Women security director.
“The White House vague statements demonstrate its complete helplessness in resolving crises. Blinken’s efforts have resulted in tens of thousands of casualties and a stalemate.” — Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in reaction to the Middle East escalation which ended as quickly as it started.
Iranian projectile fragment of a rocket shot down by Israeli air defence during an Iranian attack kills man in the city of Jericho in the West Bank.